rs wrote: > > What errors are logged to the .xsession-errors file when you can't log > > into the machine? There should be something interesting in there. > > True, when login fails, it does create the .xsession-errors file. > > # cat ~/.xsession-errors > Xsession: X session started for luser at Sun Sep 4 19:59:37 EDT 2005 > > That's it. Just one line, not much to go on. I expected to see more than that. On a machine of mine I see this Xsession: X session started for rwp at Mon Jun 27 13:18:44 MDT 2005 startkde: Starting up... ... If you are not seeing the starting up message from startkde then I would start debugging there. It is a shell script. The starting up message is about half way down. So it should be possible to trace it and to see where it goes bad for you. Bob
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